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In Reply to: RE: Equipment: Stuff which broke or otherwise was a total letdown: (me first) posted by Elizabeth on March 24, 2013 at 21:15:42
To date, their products have worked consistently as promised and have
not broken down. When I've a choice, I'll always buy Panasonic.
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I had a Panny blu-ray fail under warranty and the three replacement refurbs didn't work, either. I settled for a WORKING unit of a lesser feature laden module.Now, I have two Sony BDPs, and a boom box (since the early 80's) and all are still i use and working just fine.
I guess the Panny stuff is great as long as it works but heaven help you should it ever need service. Three bad refurbs? Gimme a break!
Edits: 03/25/13
replace with Samsung
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Should be noted that Sony had an enviable reliability record under Morita, although like any large corporation they did produce a few duds.IIRC their failure rate was 1% against an industry average of 5%. AS Morita got older and slowly released the reins on his company, reliability fell by the wayside. After his death and the bean counters took over, Sony reliability is no better than average.
In addition Sony started outsourcing a lot of their gear. They were simply falling behind the wayside for flatscreen technology, since having 75% of the world market for CRT sets, they basically ignored the flatscreens. Thus their inital foray into flatscreens were expensive and not too succesful, leading them to farm out production eventually to Sam Sung and now LG.
Also being a giant like Microsoft, Sony does not like to pay royalties to others. Hence some of their logic, on AV receivers, for example, was rather weird.....and definitely not universally compatible.
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